About this title: In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality - New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism - and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading of Christianity is explicitly political, discerning in the Paulinian community of believers the first version of a revolutionary collective. Since today even advocates of enlightenment like Habermas acknowledge that a religious vision is needed to ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780262740258ISBN:0262740257
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 2003-09-01
ISBN-13:9780262740258ISBN:0262740257
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: The MIT Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780262740258ISBN:0262740257
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mit Pr
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780262740258ISBN:0262740257
Description: New. Slavoj Zizek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In "The Puppet and the Dwarf" he offers a close... read more
"This book was so good, I began reading it again from the beginning as soon as I finished. I'm really glad I had tackled In Defense of Lost Causes first, since it prepared me with the lingo and some of the Lacanian basics. Many of the points made (in fact, some of the same sentences) from "Lost Causes" appeared first in "Puppet and the Dwarf." This is because Zizek is always making more or less the same points (or maybe just point, singular). Not exactly hostile to my religion of Christianity (the "perverse" of the title is not the same as "perverted"), it nevertheless diverges irreconcilably from my own beliefs around chapter 7. But what a wild ride until that point! Definitely got me to look at Paul in a new light."
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